Pacifichem

Kenichi Fukui was the first person from East Asia to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His 1952 paper on frontier electron orbitals theory laid the foundation for understanding the role of the HOMO and LUMO in chemical reactions! #Pacifichem2025

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving to the American chemists out there! 🦃 Every wonder why that brown, crispy meat tastes so good? All thanks to the Maillard reaction. (No relation to mallard - the type of bird)

Let's meet an incredible chemist - Alice Ball was the first African American and the first woman to graduate with a M.S. degree in chemistry from the College of Hawaii (now known as the University of Hawaii). She also developed a treatment for leprosy.

Did you know Pacifichem is a joint congress between seven societies? The American Chemical Society The Royal Australian Chemistry Institute The Canadian Society for Chemistry The Chinese Chemical Society The Chemical Society of Japan The Korean Chemical Society The New Zealand Institute of Chemistry

Sponsorship opportunities remain! See how your organization can support #Pacifichem2025.

Did you know that the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (#Pacifichem) was founded in 1984? That's over 40 years of chemistry and community building! 🤗🔬🌏

What can you expect for #Pacifichem2025? Take a look at the Agenda at a Glance - lots of excellent technical sessions along with opportunities for networking and enjoying Hawaii!

Happy mole day everyone! 🥳🧑🔬🏖️ Hoping everyone had a great 10^23

🏄♂️ 🌴 🍹 🌅 🏖  🐢  🐬  🌸  🌺  🍍  🥥  🌋  🏝️ 🏄♀️ Photofunctions of Metal Complexes: From Fundamental Aspects to Applications Organizers: Miki Hasegawa (CSJ) Ana de Bettencourt-Dias (ACS) Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo (CCS) Garry Hanan (CSC) Peter Ford (ACS) Photofunctions of metal complexes, supramolecules and organic-inorganic hybrid materials are at the crossroads for new science and technology. Key topics include not only the fundamental mechanisms of electron/energy transfers, but also applications in sustainability chemistry, optical devices (OLED & solar cells) and biology (luminescent probes & photodynamic therapy). Particularly, metal complexes provide various molecular geometries, complex electronic structures based on tunable ligand π-orbitals and d-/f-orbitals. Thus, such systems are very attractive templates for controlling photochemical and photophysical behavior. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together investigators representing cutting edge research into different photofunctions of metal complexes in order to harmonize and cross-fertilize on-going research in various fields. Our goal is for this symposium to serve as a platform for valuable information-exchanges and discussion that will help the attendees address and solve important problems relevant to modern society.

#Pacifichem2025 will offer innovative symposia from across the chemical sciences, including: Advances in Biological Solid-State NMR Battery Research in GX and DX Era Chemical Approaches to Astrobiology Full list available now!